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Story summary
- Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey was turned away from donating blood at Brixton Centre.
- He was denied because he had returned from Charente, France within the past four weeks.
- NHS Blood and Transplant mandates a 28-day deferral for travelers from Charente, Bouches-du-Rhône and Corsica.
- Davey’s campaign aims to trigger a national donor surge.
- NHS Blood and Transplant needs over 140,000 donors and reports a 10 % drop on warm days.
